Autism / Autism Spectrum Support Group

Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder which manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. Although the specific etiology of autism is unknown, many researchers suspect that autism results from genetically mediated vulnerabilities to environmental triggers.

THE GOOD DOCTOR

I have to share with you all what an excellent doctor steven has.
He retuens calls, sends me e mail even on his days off, if i call the doc on call on weekends it somehow gets to my sons doctor and he calls me,
this month has been hard u all know that.
And i am taxed out, my sons Doctor is one in a million. he does not rush into anything, he starts meds slow and slowly increases them . even though i want them to work yesterday.
I even have his voice mail number at work.
Yesterday i sent him an update on Steven and how he is doing on meds, he called me back. he was off yesterday.
I hope u all have good docs like this.
he is a neurodevopment Doc .:)

good for you and steven. it's great you have that type of support!!!!!
I wish I did. My behavioral pediatrician has referred me back to my primary pediatrician . probably because sam has been stable for awhile now and I wasn't presenting any problems so I get to start this whole process over again. I go to see his pediatrician on the 9th. i'm going o see if we have a neurodevelopmenta doc here.
julie

Yes u do that, and just because a child is doing well you dont have to stop seeing the specialist. Your childs autism is not going to just &quot;go away&quot; Like a broken leg... You find him a better doc. they ARE out there!! Check Childrens hosp. in your area.

adams pediatrician is like that, in fact on our very first visit to him he wrote his home phone # in big numbers and told me to put it on the fridge and not to hesitate to call him, he went on vacation about 3 days later and we were having no help from the med he wanted adam to try i called him at home and he met us at the office to get adams file and write a rx for a different med, the risperdal. anyways, yeah your right, there a great ones out there. sad thing is. they are so far and few between.

I am so glad that Steven has such a good doctor! I pray that they get his med.'s lined out......ya both have been worn out ....for along time....It'll be nice when ya get your happy boy back! Hang in there mom!!!!!!!!!

ok today was a good day with answers can u believe that?
we were checking in at the desk in the hosp. the good doctor walked up to us, said you do not need to check it come on with me.
so we went to his office on a diff. floor even. he examed steven so good and just observed him a good 30 mins just watching him and checking his heart etc,
then we talked alot. Got blood done, to ck for the level of the depokte. got the ekg done, took a few trials but we got it.
he called me at 5 pm. (we left the hosp at 2 30.)
said the depokote was too high and to cut it down, and we changed the geodon, not an increease but when he gets it. so... maybe this will be a good year huh?
any docs reading this,,,,
you may not be able to ever be so prompt with a patient, but the kindness and care goes along long way, and always TRUST what MOMS Say.

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